How Clinical Hypnosis Can Benefit Your Practice
Expand the Possibilities of Your Practice with Hypnosis
Hypnosis is a powerful, evidence-based tool that helps clients access the subconscious patterns that influence thoughts, emotions, and behaviors. By integrating hypnosis into your practice, you can help clients create lasting change more efficiently—whether they’re working through stress, habits, anxiety, or performance blocks. Hypnosis complements many existing modalities and can deepen results while empowering clients to tap into their own inner resources for healing and growth.
Supporting clinicians in staying grounded, ethical, and effective when values collide.
Today’s clinicians are working in environments shaped by political polarization, cultural conflict, and increasing emotional intensity. Many are navigating difficult moments with clients, colleagues, and supervisors whose beliefs or values may differ sharply from their own.
In these moments, clinicians are asked to remain present, ethical, compassionate, and steady—even when strong internal reactions are activated.
This course introduces an ego state therapy framework for clinician resilience, integrated with key social psychology concepts, helping professionals understand both the internal and relational dynamics that emerge in polarized environments.
Participants will gain practical tools for navigating value differences without losing their professional grounding or personal integrity.
Clinicians today often face challenges such as:
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Working with clients whose political, cultural, or moral values strongly differ from their own
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Feeling internal tension between professional responsibilities and personal beliefs
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Navigating workplace environments where colleagues or supervisors hold different viewpoints
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Managing strong emotional reactions triggered by social or political issues in the therapy room
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Maintaining ethical care while staying authentic and regulated
These situations can activate powerful internal responses such as frustration, withdrawal, self-doubt, over-accommodation, or moral distress.
Why this Training?
This course explores how ego state therapy can help clinicians navigate overwhelm, reactivity, compassion fatigue, and internal conflict in both their professional and personal lives. Participants will learn practical ways to recognize protective parts, reduce polarization within the self, and cultivate greater steadiness, clarity, and capacity in challenging clinical and cultural contexts.
Designed for helping professionals, this training blends theory, reflection, and applicable tools you can bring directly into your work.
Integrating Social Psychology & Ego State Therapy
This training integrates insights from social psychology with ego state therapy theory to deepen understanding of how conflict develops—both internally and between people.
Social psychology helps explain dynamics such as:
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Group identity and in-group / out-group thinking
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Moral conviction and belief rigidity
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Cognitive bias and attribution errors
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Escalation of conflict in polarized environments
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Emotional contagion and social threat responses
Ego State Therapy complements this perspective by helping clinicians understand how these external dynamics can activate internal parts of the self.
Together, these frameworks help clinicians:
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Understand why highly polarized interactions escalate so quickly
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Recognize how external conflict can create internal polarization within our clients and ourselves
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Work with the internal states that emerge during moments of tension
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Develop strategies for staying regulated and therapeutically present
This integration provides practical tools for working with the most conflicted systems both within individuals and between people.
What You’ll Learn
Participants will learn how to:
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The Principles of EST theory that effectively assist our most conflicted clients
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Ways to utilize EST principles to understand and relate to those w/differing values/opinions/behavior
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Understand trance logic and how it might be adding to clinician and client stress and reactivity
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Apply social psychology insights to better understand polarized interactions
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Identify internal states that become activated when working with clients who hold different values
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Recognize protective parts in your clients and yourself that may contribute to emotional struggles
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Develop greater internal cooperation within self and with others, including clients
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Maintain therapeutic presence when navigating political or cultural differences
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Manage internal responses when workplace dynamics involve conflicting viewpoints
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Apply EST strategies when working with highly conflicted systems (whether internal/external)
Clinician Resilience, Modern Challenges, & Polarized Times
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Free
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The Session will be Recorded
Wendy Lemke, MS LP
Wendy Lemke is the co-founder of Ego State Therapy North American (ESTNA), the North American representative to Ego State Therapy International (ESTI), the editor of the ESTI newsletter, along with being a certified ESTNA and ESTI consultant and trainer.
She is an American Society of Clinical Hypnosis (ASCH) fellow, certified approved consultant, and former Vice President of the American Society of Clinical Hypnosis (ASCH). She is also an active member of the Minnesota Society of Clinical Hypnosis (MSCH) and has served on the Board and various committees for both organizations as well as teaching basic, intermediate, and advanced workshops at regional and annual conferences.
She is fellow of the International Society for the Study of Trauma and Dissociation (ISSTD) and an active member and teacher for the organization.
She has received numerous awards. She has been honored with four awards from the American Society of Clinical Hypnosis: two awards for publishing, a Merit award, and a Presidential award for her continued efforts to expand clinical hypnosis education to the International Society for the Study of Trauma and Dissociation. She was also awarded the Daniel P. Kohen M.D. Outstanding Clinician Award in recognition of outstanding leadership in the clinical practice, teaching, and utilization of therapeutic hypnosis by the Minnesota Society of Clinical Hypnosis.
She has published articles in the Journal of Trauma & Dissociation, and the American Journal of Clinical Hypnosis, and a chapter for a Hypnosis book (In press) in Germany. She wrote and produced the documentary: You’re Not Crazy & You’re Not Alone: Inside the Inner World of Dissociative Identity Disorder as well as Self-hypnosis recordings for sleep and mental vacations.